Donut Do It

I’m always willing to try a place if I hear they serve great doughnuts. Last time I was in New York City, I went out of my way to try the doughnuts at Doughnut Plant. On my most recent visit, I took advantage of another opportunity to try a place that is well-known for serving great doughnuts - The Donut Pub. I considered Doughnut Plant to be a bit of a disappointment and, unfortunately, The Donut Pub was more of the same.

This small, quaint doughnut shop is located near Greenwich Village near 7th avenue. I had read good things about it on Foursquare and we were already headed in that direction so I decided to give it a try.

The layout of the shop reminded me of a traditional Dunkin Donuts. The doughnuts were on the wall, people were seated at a bar, and there wasn’t anything fancy about it.

Honey-Dipped

This usually ends up being pointless, but I decided to ask the lady behind the counter which doughnuts were the most popular and what she would recommend. Naturally, she proceeded to name nearly every flavor they had as the most popular and then gave the sound advice of “well the chocolate is good if you like chocolate, the creme filled is good if you like creme, and the cake ones are good if you like cake.”

Hmmm...well when you put it like that!

I ordered two different flavors - the Honey Dipped and the Chocolate Glazed. The honey dipped was The Donut Pub’s take on an original glazed doughnut and the Chocolate Glazed was a plain doughnut covered in chocolate. I didn’t think the Honey Dipped tasted any different than a glazed doughnut you get from Dunkin Donuts and I thought the Chocolate Glazed was gross. It reminded me of the chocolate doughnuts you get in the bag at the grocery store. I actually threw it in the trash after two bites.

Safe to say I wasn’t particularly impressed with The Donut Pub. At $3, it was a cheap snack, but not one I’d recommend.

Maybe people in New York just don’t know what it takes to make a good doughnut.

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